White rice and groundnut soup is consider in Cameroon as a poor man’s dish, this consideration is mostly heard in big towns in Cameroon such as Yaoundé, Douala, Llimbe and Buea. Putting aside this attribution, rice and groundnut soup is a delicious meal and very nutritious since it contains all the classes of nutrients. It is widely prepared all over Cameroon’s national territory especially in the east, north, far north and extreme north.
Dahyi is a traditional meal common in the North West region of Cameroon and frequently prepared by the people of bamungo in the ngoketunjia division of North West region of Cameroon. Dahyi looks more like achu but it is hard as little or no water is used during pounding.
Spaghetti is considered a fast or easy to prepare dish so most people especially students have named it “last option”. Reasons spaghetti is called last option around student areas is because it is cheap, fast to prepare and easy to fine. Sauté spaghetti though is a delicious meal prepared with pork and vegetables like carrots and green beans.
Ndole and ripe plantains is a special delicacy prepared and eaten by almost all the inhabitants of Cameroon. Ndole is a very nutritive meal as it contains almost all the classes of food.
Kwakwalang is a typical bakossi and mbacham delicacy though not a most say main traditional dish. Kwakwalang is a soup made from fresh soft cocoyam leaves mostly red Igbo coco or red macabo coco leaves. Kwakwalang is also known as black soup when a small amount of chobbi powder is added to it.
Cameroon is blessed with uncountable traditional dishes which comes from the ten regions each with so many villages. One of these traditional meal is mulu kpat which is a traditional meal from lebialem in the south west region precisely typical of the bamumbu tribe. The main ingredient used in preparing this mouthwatering is a leaf called tarot leaf.
Okra soup is a slimming soup which is very delicious and easy to prepare and it’s loved by many people. Here in Cameroon there are restaurants specialized just in cooking okra soup with either garri, water fufu or fufu corn. Okra soup is very delicious and nutritive and it’s good for convalescence and pregnant women.
Pumpkin leaves is such a delicious meal which many people fail to understand or neglect this meal. Pumpkin leaves is very nutritive and cheap to get. This meal is good for convalescence, breastfeeding mothers and the aging ones.
Egussi pudding is a delicious meal which is made from egussi and other ingredients. Egussi pudding is common in the center region of Cameroon. It is mostly prepared by the Bassa and Ewondo tribe people. This particular meal is a tradition meal in some villages in Bamenda the North West region of Cameroon. In general, egussi pudding is a very delicious meal which can be eaten with ripe plantains, bobolo, coco yams and it can be taken for a picnic as well.
Okro is a fruit vegetable grown in almost if not all but at least six regions in Cameroon. In the center region okro can be seen grown by the beti and ewondo tribe. Okro soup itself is very nutritive and good for every age group from a toddler to adults to the aging.